Teaching

Courses

ANTH 89/ BIOL 89/ POLI 89: Foundations for Global and Community Health
POLI 189: Pandemics, Politics and Global and Community Health
POLI 189B: Global and Community Health Policy in Practice
GCH 195: Global and Community Health Communication
GCH 1: Foundations for Global and Community Health
GCH 190: Task Force in Global and Community Health
POLI 17: US and the World Economy
POLI 200D: Political Economy Core
GCH 186: Politics of Global Health
POLI 271: Global GeoPolitics

CURRENT Advisees, Grad Students, Researchers

Riley Collins, Giselle Castillo, Mark Howard, Boyeong Kim, Key MacFarlane, Henry McLaughlin, Nadia Olea, Tamara Ortega-Uribe, Gabrielle Marie Peñaranda, Gabriela Segura, & Lucia Vitale

UCSC’s Global and Community Health program

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Farmworker Community Health Vulnerabilities and Responses Amid Climate Change

With funding from the state of California for Climate Action, Matt's most recent work addresses "Farmworker Community Health Vulnerabilities and Responses Amid Climate Change." This is a large collaborative project involving the work of 10 community-based organizations and over 20 faculty colleagues from UCSC, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley and UCSF, as well as students from the Global and Community Health program at UCSC. Together we are working to address the ways in which the vectors of vulnerability tied to climate change (extreme heat, drought, floods, air pollution, water pollution and new pests and pesticide exposures) compound pre-existing social, economic and political vulnerabilities. We are creating a data-sharing dashboard about these intersecting vulnerabilities and also developing a set of response tools for promotores (community-health workers) that provide resources on the risks, rights and re-training opportunities available to farmworkers. For more on this project please visit our project website.